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Personal Essay

Remembering GW Micro

May 13, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 5 Comments

Introduction Over the past few weeks, those of us who follow such things have heard two major announcements from GW Micro, the first announcing that they had decided to start selling consulting services and the second announcing that they had been acquired by AI Squared, the Vermont based publishers of the market dominant low vision… Read more about Remembering GW Micro

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: Access Technology, Freedom Scientific, GW Micro, Henter-Joyce, JAWS, NVDA, Rant, Window-Eyes

Standards Are Important

May 1, 2014 by Chris Hofstader 4 Comments

Introduction For nearly twenty years, the community of people working on disability related issues involving technology have worked very hard to create a set of standards, guidelines and best practices for accessibility. This article intends to explore the history of why the rich set of standards we now have available to developers had to be… Read more about Standards Are Important

Filed Under: Personal Essay, Technology Review Tagged With: a11y, Accessibility, Standards, universal design, WAI/Aria, WCAG

Back In The USA

April 21, 2014 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

Introduction As I wrote in my previous piece, I spent the weekend of 4/12-13 at the QED conference in Manchester, England. This event is run by the terrific people at the Merseyside Skeptics Society (MSS) who did an incredible job of lining up speakers, arranging panels and delivering all of it in an entirely accessible… Read more about Back In The USA

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: Accessibility, Be Reasonable, Disability, Humanism, QED, Skepticism

QED! QED! QED!

March 23, 2014 by Chris Hofstader Leave a Comment

Introduction Regular readers of this blog (both of you) would already know that I’m a vocal skeptic, humanist, atheist and science enthusiast. When I have the opportunity, I enjoy meeting up with other like minded people at conferences, “pub” events, local dinners and other similar gatherings. In our winter residence in Florida, I enjoy the… Read more about QED! QED! QED!

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: Accessibility, Conference, QED, Science, Skepticism

I Left My Hair in San Francisco

October 14, 2013 by Chris Hofstader 1 Comment

Chris, with maniacal grin, wearing long braids sticking out of either side of his head

It’s been a long time since I last wrote a random musings article. In fact, I haven’t written anything like this since the BlindConfidential days. Lots of things cross my mind that may be interesting or amusing to our readers so I will write them down here and hope you people enjoy them. Locks of… Read more about I Left My Hair in San Francisco

Filed Under: Personal Essay Tagged With: Accessibility, Android, Apple, Google, Hair, iOS, Locks of Love, Music, Musings, Shelley Segal

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